I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

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Topic

Gender relations Women Men and women

Speaker

Sir Austin Feverel

Author

George Meredith

Source

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, ch. 1.

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Time
1852 1850s 19th century
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Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

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Another quote about Men and women

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:23

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Adam and Eve Men and women
Source
Genesis The Bible
Medium
Scripture
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Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 2:23).

Another quote from 1859

There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Human evolution Creation of man Evolution Human origins

Author

Charles Darwin
Source
On the Origin of Species
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.